This group is for everyone living in the DC metro area who's interested in Drupal. You can post here about anything relating to DC and Drupal, whether that's local job postings, events, or just a call out to talk shop over beers.
You can also find us in a couple of other places:
- Group on Meetup.com for events (they handle events better, with reminder emails and whatnot)
- Group on groups.drupal.org for discussions and job posts (that's here)
- #drupal-dc on freenode
- @DrupalDC on Twitter
We have a great meetup every month where we get together to connect in person. The target audience is Drupal developers, users, and people who want to learn more about Drupal. We start the meetups with a round of very focused lightning talks that discuss real world solutions to existing problems, new work people have done, and Drupal news. Some of these talks are about code, and some are not. We do ask that all presenters talk on a level that everyone - including non-developers - can follow. After the talks, we chat over beer, and maybe play a few games of foosball.
We're open to ways to improve the meetups and this group, so speak up if you have ideas!
October DC Drupal meetup will be 10/11
Our next DC Drupal meetup will be on Monday, October 11th starting at 7:00 pm at the upstairs bar at Stetson's.
Beers will be cracked at 7:00 pm and the formal portion of the meetup will start at 7:30 pm with a discussion on Drupal 7. Topics will likely include is it ready yet, when will it be released, what's new in this releases, what changes should everyone be aware of, and what road bumps will there be for upgrading. Jeff will solicit questions from the group and ask people to share their experience to help answer them. So come ready with LOTS of questions, and for those who have worked with Drupal 7, be ready to share your experiences.
My colleagues at Development Seed will get things started by talking about their experience upgrading modules like Features, Context, Admin, and Strongarm and how it led to the creation of something new - Build Kit - that could help others working in Drupal 7.
These meetups are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal, and they're a great opportunity to learn more about the open source framework - there is usually a lot of experience in the room - and meet local developers. We have a meetup each month on the second Monday of the month at Stetsons. Hope to see you there!
Meetup Details
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Stetson's Bar and Restaurant
1610 U Street, NW
Map
Metros: Short walk from U Street metro on the green line and Dupont on the red line
Bus: Right off of the S1, S2, and S4 routes that run up 16th Street, plus the 90 buses that run up U street.
Drupal Hands-On Intro for Builders: Herndon Va 11/8-9
Dates: November 8 and 9, 2010 from 9:00am to 4:30pm each day.
Register at http://planningdrupalsites.com/products/drupal-hands-intro-builders-118-119
Description: In this classroom course you will build a site that has four site sections, custom content types, views and more. Each section demonstrates commonly used techniques used to build dynamic Drupal sites. In addition to using Drupal's many administrative features, you will use modules such as
* Admin role
* Admininstration menu
* CCK
* Filefield
* Imagefield
* Link
* Book
* Comment
Views - Content and Links to display on front page
Good evening,
I have been trying to figure out views every evening for a couple of weeks. My website is 'contactipedia.com'.. Please feel free to check out what I have done so far. So far with Drupal I know how to create a static website. I can also create content.
Basically, guys, I want links with titles and content to appear down the page. Id like to have about 50 titles and 10 pieces of content per title. But first things first...
Read moreAny Migration Tips re field types, patches for a Beginner Moving MySQL tables 2 Drupal?
'Morning, one and all. If anyone has time for tip or two on this, I'd LOVE it! Spent a lil' time this weekend reading Drupal
API+ sites, and I found a patch that I think will help me migrate date type fields from a MySQL table into a Drupal CCK node.
But I am having trouble synthesizing what I've read. I have the Migrate/Table Wizard/Schema modules installed. And the migration works when I exclude the non-supported field types, dates in my case. At risk of being ... inelegant, my reading took me here:
http://drupal.org/node/200953#comment-1763166
Read moreDrupal Help Needed
I am the Chief Information Office for the Virginia German Shepherd Rescue. We are trying to move our web site from a MS based web host to a Linux based one.
I am hoping to use a combination of mostly Drupal and a few other Open Source packages to build the site.
My PHP programmer (who originally going to write the site from scratch) has just bailed on me.
We desperately need to get the site up and running in about a month.
I am looking for some one who can alter themes to match the theme we have created and help with the set up. We will also need about 6 forms created.
UserFocus - Friday, October 15, 2010
UPA DC’s Annual Usability Conference, UserFocus, will be held this year on Friday, October 15 at the Marriott Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel (999 Ninth Street NW).
Conference Program:
Full conference program available online.
Registration:
Register online
Maryland Drupal Meetup on Wednesday September 29 @ 7pm
Another month, another meetup! The MD Drupal meetup is occurring on the 5th Wednesday of the month at PMG's offices in Columbia.
The meetup starts around 7PM and presentations will begin at 7:30. If you're interested in presenting for longer than 15 minutes, please contact Ron Williams (ron@lithicmedia.com or 410-726-7869) to reserve time, otherwise simply show up and we'll give you a 15 minute slot.
Location Details:
MD Meetup at PMG
6940 Columbia Gateway Drive (right off of 95 on 175 West)
Suite 220
Columbia, MD 21046
Call if you have any problems: 410 290 0667
Read moreI want links from content on my website to appear on my front page
Good evening,
Can someone help me please??
I now understand how to create a static website..Can someone please help me figure out how I can add links to other content on my site to the 'front page'?
I have created content (pages) that I would like to display on the 'front page'. I can get info. to show up on my front page. BUT, the content can not be clicked on by the viewer.. It's just words, no link.. What can I do?
Thanks, so much, for the help.
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School Without Walls Senior High School - using drupal
The School Without Walls Senior High School's website, http://swwhs.org/ has been deployed using drupal and acquia marina as the theme.
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Training: Drupal Module Development Nov 17-19
Drupal Module Development Training
MicroTek, 1101 Vermont Avenue NW Suite 300
Free Ticket:
We'll be giving away 1 free ticket to this Module class, by random drawing. Enter here to win.
Class Description:
Read moreTraining: Drupal Theming Nov 15-16
Drupal Theming Training
MicroTek, 1101 Vermont Avenue NW Suite 300
Class Description:
This class starts by discussing the anatomy of a Drupal theme, and explaining the PHPtemplate system Drupal uses to render HTML. We'll guide you through creating a custom theme from scratch by overriding the template files provided by Drupal core, adding new style sheets, and defining your own theme and preprocess functions with a little PHP code.
Drupal Tips'N Tricks Webinar
Drupal - Tips and Tricks!
Join OHO's tech team for a great discussion and demo of a number of 'tips and tricks' around best practices in Drupal. During the webinar, you'll hear from Langdon White, Michael Rossetti, and Akeem Williams. (Architects and senior Drupal developers/designers)
Integrating Drupal with other platforms
Using Drupal's SEO modules
Exploring multi-site options
Theming: Do's and Don'ts
Register for the no cost webinar @ http://www.oho.com/webinar
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Baltimore Drupal Meetup September 8th
Meet other Drupal themers and developers, share best practices and experience. We meet every second Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the Snake Hill offices and home of Schiavone Fine Art.
Our guest presenters will be Brandon Dixon and Mark McIntosh. Brandon will present a module used for statistical analysis and Mark will show an implementation of Solr used to search government data.
Snake Hill: Practical Technology Solutions
244 S Highland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224
www.SnakeHIll.net
443-927-2176
Drupal Meetup on September 13th at 7:00 pm
The next Washington, DC Drupal meetup will be on Monday, September 13 at 7:00 pm at Stetson's Bar and Grill. We have an awesome lineup of 5 minute lightning talks this month, all focused on performance and hosting Drupal:
UPDATE: This talk is now postponed until (hopefully) next month since Frank can't make it
Frank Febbraro from Phase2 Technology will talk about improving performance in Drupal with CDNs and run through how his team implements these features on sites they have developed including WhiteHouse.gov and others.
Dan Reif from Blackmesh will talk about how to configure Drupal for ultimate performance, highlighting common configuration mistakes and solutions.
Alex Barth from Development Seed will talk about the Aegir hosting system and how we use it and Drush Make in development and staging.
Mike Walsh from Acquia will talk about Acquia Hosting and what it provides.
We'll start the formal part of the meetup at 7:30 pm with a round of quick introductions, and then will go into the lightning talks above. After the lightning talks, there will be time to talk to the presenters in more detail if you're interested, and for chatting over beers.
These meetups are a great opportunity to learn about Drupal, find out more about some of the cool things local developers are working on, and get to know people using and working with Drupal in Washington, DC. We have a meetup each month on the second Monday of the month at Stetsons. Hope to see you there!
Read moreMaryland Drupal Meetup on Wednesday August 25 @ 7pm
It's that time again! The MD Drupal meetup is occurring as usual on the 4th Wednesday of the month at PMG's offices in Columbia.
The meetup starts around 7PM and presentations will begin at 7:30. If you're interest in presenting for longer than 15 minutes, please contact Ron Williams (ron@lithicmedia.com or 410-726-7869) to reserve time, otherwise simply show up and we'll give you a 15 minute slot.
Location Details:
MD Meetup at PMG
6940 Columbia Gateway Drive (right off of 95 on 175 West)
Suite 220
Columbia, MD 21046
Call if you have any problems: 410 290 0667
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DC Community Training: Basic Module Development
Cover the beginning steps of module development.
This will NOT be a "How to program", "Learn PHP", or "Cover every function in Drupal" course.
Instead it will be covering the basic module functions, files, and documentation needed to build site support modules. Simple common use cases for custom site support modules will be shown.
Read moreDrupal vs. Joomla - Why not both?
Ok, I am not a developer BUT I have a question. I have an opening (posted under Jobs here on Groups.Drupal.org by NewMediaHire if you want to see what I am talking about) for someone with both BUT here is the issue, I have not seen one resume with both on there SOOOOOOOOOOOO I had to ask the one person I know who loves Drupal. He tells me that developers are either one or the other and they are not used together.
Read moreNext Drupal Meetup will be August 9 at 7:00 pm
The August Washington, DC Drupal meetup will be this Monday, August 9, starting at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. This meetup will focus on conversations and networking and be more like a Drupal happy hour than our usual format of short presentations.
We'll start with a round of introductions at 7:30 pm so we can all meet each other, and please come ready to share a few topics you'd like to chat about with others. We'll still open up the floor to anyone who would like to give a quick five minute lightning talk, but we will not have any planned presentations. Most of the time will go to talking casually with people with shared interests.
This month's meetup in particular will be a great opportunity to meet local Drupal developers and talk with them about specific topics you'd like to know more about, for example aggregation, Drush, site building, or Drupal 7. Hope to see you there!
The DC Drupal meetup takes place the second Monday of each month at Stetsons.
Meetup Details
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Stetson's Bar and Restaurant
1610 U Street, NW
Map
Metros: Short walk from U Street metro on the green line and Dupont on the red line
Bus: Right off of the S1, S2, and S4 routes that run up 16th Street, plus the 90 buses that run up U street.
Drupal Hands-On Intro for Builders
Dates: September 13 and 14, 2010 from 9:00am to 4:30pm each day.
Price: $550.00 (includes lunch)
Location:
Office of Continuing Professional Education at the Center for Innovative Technology
2214 Rock Hill Rd. Suite 400
Herndon VA 20170-4213
United States
Directions
Register at: http://planningdrupalsites.com/products/drupal-hands-intro-builders-913-...
Description: In this classroom course you will build a site that has four site sections, custom content types, views and more. Each section demonstrates commonly used techniques used to build dynamic Drupal sites. In addition to using Drupal's many administrative features, you will use modules such as
Read moreMac SW versus PC SW
This is a message to all you Drupalers that are on a Mac. We are in need of a new computer at my house. Do I go with another PC or a Mac? If I go Mac, I have to run Parallels so that I can flip back and forth between windows and mac to accommodate the Adobe SW in which I have a lot of money invested. So this begs the question, what SW out on a Mac that I can't get on a PC? What Mac only SW do you use as Drupalers? Is the switch worth it (processing power aside)?
thanks
c
